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Joram Lindenstrauss

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “israeli mathematician”. Today it says “israeli mathematician working in functional analysis”.
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Joram Lindenstrauss in 1975 (photo courtesy MFO) Joram Lindenstrauss ( ; October 28, 1936 — ) is an Israeli mathematician .1 He is professor emeritus of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics , Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Israel .2 He is a namesake of the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma . In 1962 he received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University (dissertation: Extension of Compact Operators , advisores: Aryeh Dvoretzky , Branko Grünbaum ). He joined the faculty of the university in 1965 and worked in various areas of functional analysis and geometry . A biographical sketch from the book "Classical Banach Spaces Professors emeriti, Einstein Institute of Mathematics Joram Lindenstrauss at Mathematics Genealogy3

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